AuthorTopic: Cannot Play DVDs (Read 8437 times)

Installed VL Standard Gold today and love it except for not being able to play dvds on either of my dvd players. Get a `no stream found to handle the url dvd with mplayer and xine also. VASMCC shows them as being recognized by VL. I`m pretty much a novice with Linux. Thanks Any suggestions would be appreciated.

"> Setup > Media > scroll down to "device used for DVD playback" My version of xine does not have this option. Not sure what you mean. By the way my external dvd burner/player plays dvds with no problem, but it`s not a solution to my problem. Thanks for the help so far.

I'd recently loaded scratchbox which requires a new group, and that the user be added to the group.

I'm guessing that when I did this it wiped out all my group memberships. Since Vector doesn't have a user editor, (that lets you edit group memberships) I went in and re-added my account to all the proper groups in /etc/groups .

I'd recently loaded scratchbox which requires a new group, and that the user be added to the group.

I'm guessing that when I did this it wiped out all my group memberships. Since Vector doesn't have a user editor, (that lets you edit group memberships) I went in and re-added my account to all the proper groups in /etc/groups .

-G group,[...] A list of supplementary groups which the user is also a member of. Each group is separated from the next by a comma, with no intervening whitespace. The groups are subject to the same restrictions as the group given with the -g option. If the user is currently a member of a group which is not listed, the user will be removed from the group

A bit annoying, but I guess the author used to remove users from groups very often.

« Last Edit: June 24, 2008, 07:41:43 pm by rbistolfi »

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Penguinista

I am having the same problem with VectorLinux 6.0 Standard (Deluxe) on a HP Pavilion dv9408ca Laptop. On a previous installation of VL6Std, my video DVDs would automount, open Xine and start playing no problem. Now with my reinstallation this only happens rarely. Most DVDs won't play.

I am using HAL. A search reveals that the libdvdread, libdvdcss and libdvdnav codecs are installed.

Penguinista

After loading a DVD, I can hear the DVD player chugging away trying to read the DVD with the access light flashing but (usually) the system does not mount the DVD. Rarely and at random, it does mount the DVD though.

I opened a terminal as user and typed xine and received this info:

richard:$ xineThis is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.5.(c) 2000-2007 The xine Team.libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD accesslibdvdread: Could not open /dev/hda with libdvdcss.libdvdread: Can't open /dev/hda for readinglibdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD accesslibdvdread: Could not open /dev/hda with libdvdcss.libdvdread: Can't open /dev/hda for reading

I also received the usual Xine errors: "The source can't be read. Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't contain data . . ." and "There is no input plugin available to handle 'dvd:/'. Maybe MRL syntax is wrong or file/stream source doesn't exist".